MacCaulay
Banned
I found this when I was cleaning out the computer. It was written in my senior year of high school for a creative writing class. There's some glaring faults that I see, but I think it has an alright flow, especially when put in the context that the whole paper is twenty typed pages long and was written in about two days. Be kind.
The Northwestern Campaign
An Overview
by Alan Smithee
Pre-1877 US History 101
Introduction
In retrospect, November 7, 1861 could not have sent history on any other course. In a way, the siezure and boarding of the British packet Trent by Union officers of the USS San Jacinto was just as obligatory as the Confederate attack on Fort Sumter. The British Empire and it's boisterous cousing, the United States, had been set on a collision course sing 1815. It was a course marked with beginnings of Manifest Destiny in the American camp, and with the continuin need of the British to prove themselves the maseters of their Empire. Now, afterwards, historians now concentrate on the might of the Royal Navy in battling the Union blockade, and the exploits of the Union Army in the Niagara Peninsula under Grant. Obviously, these are the showpiece battles. The ones that movies are made of. But in every war (and the British participation in American Civil War is no exception), the batles in what may seem the peripthery sometimes help the centre to come into focus.
Such is the point of this paper. I intend to provide a general overview of what is now known as the Northwestern Campaign: a long overlooked part of the Anglo-American conflict that widened the Civil War.
More to come.
The Northwestern Campaign
An Overview
by Alan Smithee
Pre-1877 US History 101
Introduction
In retrospect, November 7, 1861 could not have sent history on any other course. In a way, the siezure and boarding of the British packet Trent by Union officers of the USS San Jacinto was just as obligatory as the Confederate attack on Fort Sumter. The British Empire and it's boisterous cousing, the United States, had been set on a collision course sing 1815. It was a course marked with beginnings of Manifest Destiny in the American camp, and with the continuin need of the British to prove themselves the maseters of their Empire. Now, afterwards, historians now concentrate on the might of the Royal Navy in battling the Union blockade, and the exploits of the Union Army in the Niagara Peninsula under Grant. Obviously, these are the showpiece battles. The ones that movies are made of. But in every war (and the British participation in American Civil War is no exception), the batles in what may seem the peripthery sometimes help the centre to come into focus.
Such is the point of this paper. I intend to provide a general overview of what is now known as the Northwestern Campaign: a long overlooked part of the Anglo-American conflict that widened the Civil War.
More to come.